Happy holidays, everyone. See you in the new year.
We’re taking a break…
Happy Halloween!
Nibbles: Soil map, Dealing with pH, Egypt pix, Samoa taro & breadfruit, Fruit genomics, GM video, Twitter
- Need soil info? There’s an app for that!
- Like pH, for instance?
- Photographing Egypt’s farms.
- Frozen Samoan taro, anyone? Only the beginning…
- Also from Samoa, a landmark breadfruit deal.
- Alas, breadfruit is not one of the tree fruits included in the website Tree Fruit Genome Database Resources (tfGDR). Maybe they should get together with DivSeek? Or the guy growing 40 different fruits on one tree.
- Soybean genetic modification 101, with video goodness.
- While both Jeremy and I are otherwise engaged, blogging in general and Nibbling in particular might be a bit slow, but you can keep up with us on Twitter. If you dare.
We’re outta here
Story goes that Santa used to be green, and that he was recoloured by that soft-drink company. Too true to be good?
We’re recharging our solar-powered batteries for a couple of weeks, back around 6 January 2014. And, however and wherever you are, whatever you are doing, we wish you well. ((I can’t resist a parting shot: let’s make 2014 the year of proper attribution, shall we? I found the picture of old green Santa here. No idea where he found it, and my search fu hasn’t been able to help. The recumbent green Santas I found here, with no hint of where Brian found it. Even though the photo itself contains all the information needed to credit it. So I’ve done that, which means I get to eat my mince pies with a large dollop of smug self-righteousness.))
Nibbles: Crop rotation, Nutrition, Rice podcast, Climate change meet, Sustainable diets seminar
- “Always rotating, regardless of prices, is close to optimal.” Not what you think. Or maybe it is. Robust economic reasons for not planting the same annual crop two years running.
- Got any data about nutrition and biodiversity? FAO wants them.
- Fuller and McCouch on the origins of rice. Audio goodness only.
- The first of many video updates on #COP19. Gonna be a long couple of weeks.
- And no, I don’t think a UN Nutrition and Sustainability Seminar will help much in that respect, but you can follow that too at #sustfoodsystems. Or is it #sustdiets?